
Context Insights is an MIT startup launching a global alternative data platform. We generate unique predictive insights for investors, governments and industry through the wisdom of the crowd and the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence. We focus on creating a differentiated data source for high growth, low data environments across emerging markets by turning locals into on-the-ground research analysts. Combining cutting edge data science with best practices from finance and defense/intelligence sectors, Context Insights launched in 2017 at MIT. We currently work in collaboration with MIT's Legatum Center for Developing World Entrepreneurship, the Center for Collective Intelligence and the Jamaal Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab. At Context, we're democratizing knowledge work and unlocking the greatest underutilized resource - local human intelligence.

Context Insights is an MIT startup launching a global alternative data platform. We generate unique predictive insights for investors, governments and industry through the wisdom of the crowd and the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence. We focus on creating a differentiated data source for high growth, low data environments across emerging markets by turning locals into on-the-ground research analysts. Combining cutting edge data science with best practices from finance and defense/intelligence sectors, Context Insights launched in 2017 at MIT. We currently work in collaboration with MIT's Legatum Center for Developing World Entrepreneurship, the Center for Collective Intelligence and the Jamaal Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab. At Context, we're democratizing knowledge work and unlocking the greatest underutilized resource - local human intelligence.
Founded: December 1, 2017
Headquarters: New York, NY, United States
What they do: Global alternative data platform combining crowd-sourced local intelligence with ML/AI for predictive insights
Target customers: Investors, governments, and industry in emerging markets
Affiliation: Launched at MIT; collaborates with MIT centers
Lack of reliable, timely data in emerging markets for investment, government policy, and industry decision-making.
2017
Alternative data / Data analytics
One funding round listed; lead investor indicated as MIT delta v in available evidence